100% sure. #dumpster

BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…” Read that again.

Japan: “Ummm, what was so bad about those decades of price stability?!” www.japantimes.co.jp/business/202...

As much as 52% of Americans are economically insecure. Although the problem is not new or temporally acute, this is definitely not a vibescession #deflation #inflation #affordability

Highly relevant for the challenges the US faces today… the myth that deflation was bad for Japan. www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/o...

If the gov just stopped pushing inflation as policy we could go back to stable prices with almost full employment. A period that was looked at by Western vultures & their lackey J elites as "horrible deflation" & viewed by most Js as STABILITY where people could afford basics.

“Lan Fo’an, the finance minister, promised fiscal support for employment and income growth as well as social security, health and education.” This is healthy for China to transition to consumption growth as long as it is not paid for by households via higher taxes. www.ft.com/content/2a69...

This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.

Taxing companies for paying labor is so dumb.

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump name added to building

DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

One of the best 21st century products of technology

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

Regulations and taxation. The people deserve a royalty for every dollar of rent collected by tech titans on our internet #GigabyteTax

Proposal for 2026: the Gigabyte Tax Every Gigabyte of data consumed gets taxed at $0.05. First 1,000GB per user is free. This would generate $287bn per year in tax revenue. Money would then be redistributed as a progressive UBI for anyone making less than $100,000 per year.

"The only people in our society who "take more than they give" are wealthy capitalists. No laborer can ever take more than they give because its our "excess labor value" that creates the capitalist wealth" Dems have got to find their language for this.

Best thing happening on Bluesky right now if you don’t have FOMO you should

If there’s one thing that we should learn from the last 10 years, it’s that Liberalism is a lot more important than Democracy

Apparently the suspect repeatedly visited multiple unfriendly counties, like Denmark, each of the last several years

Mea culpa, as a footnote

From @parkermolloy.com at New Republic. newrepublic.com/article/2047... I'd go a bit further. The system needs no conspiracy to function. It just needs everyone to understand the direction things are going in. Bari Weiss was put there not to protect a legacy, but to align its politics differently.

NYT shows how Bari Weiss really screwed this up. She didn't attend any of the 5 screenings of the story, which began on Dec. 12. She only first weighed in on Thursday, and the show incorporated her suggestions. She then waited until weekend to ask for more edits. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/b...

The Trump administration will begin seizing the pay of people in default on their student loans early next year, marking the first wave of new wage garnishments since the pandemic.

I got excited that Bessent was advocating for lowering the inflation target - which would mean higher rates and make Dumpster very angry! - but actually he just wants to increase the range to make his job easier and now I’m sad www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

They could come back if we fixed the money supply. We need to recognize that it’s our choice

Trump wants to name Greenland after himself. That's all there is to it.

Follow up question: “Given that Republicans are 3x more likely to be violent criminals than immigrants, is the administration planning similar incursions into Republican communities?”

Interesting read. When banks have the power to create liquidity, and are ultimately secured from the costs of potential losses, they have little incentive to understand the fundamentals of their own underwriting.

Go to Oklahoma University to learn about how T-Rex ate raspberries with early humans

The only just outcome here is obviously a 60 Minutes story on the 60 Minutes story.

Heart goes out to everyone in the Navy force to endure this nonsense www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/p...

Reminder that Republicans are more than 3x likely to be violent criminals than Immigrants

Health insurance premium increases will be the final nail in Trump’s affordability coffin.

This is what inflationary policy looks like. (In so far as inflation is not controlled by the fed, which is limited but wth)

The key correspondent for the CBS 60 Minutes piece on CECOT said, "Pulling it now, after every rigorous internal check has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.” No pay wall.

Deleting a near-free energy supply is the definition of an inflationary agenda

“In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss.” — www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

Letttsss goooo!!!

"Congratulations to President Kennedy...." God. The soulless, ignorant, self-absorbed shitpieces who have been gathered together to govern a once-serious nation.

There is no way for economy to achieve healthy deflation if the Fed maintains a 2% inflation target. There’s a reason why there’s no Green in the last 100 years, and it is not because deflation is bad. Its a policy choice of flowing capital through banks and asset owners: ie trickle down economics

Never forget this: The GOP’s nonsensical culture war is meant to distract you from corporate corruption, worker oppression, and staggering wealth inequality.

Whoa.

The worst part of affordability politics is watching smart people tell working class folks that they don’t know what they want

Lets goooo!!!! #deflation

In the same way that Soviets set back Socialism by 100 years, DOGE set back the idea of government efficiency by at least 50

In a brutal abduction incident on December 18, 2025, ICE In Pittsburgh subjected a man to a horrific ordeal, involving beatings, pepper spraying, and choking.

Its amazing how many people have been brainwashed into thinking these two words are synonymous

Workers are not wrong when they ask for the benefits of productivity to go to lower prices instead of corporate profits.

In 2025, ICE has detained 23 immigrants with prior homicide convictions. In 2025, there have been 30 immigrant deaths in ICE custody. ICE is literally increasing the violent crime rate.